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LAW 3220 Test 1 | Verified with 100% Correct Answers What are the three key functions of the legal system? 1) influencing behavior 2) conflict behavior 3)social stability and change May be viewed as a collection of rules or principles that limit and direct human behavior law Damages designed to p...

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What are the three key functions of the legal system?
1) influencing behavior
2) conflict behavior
3)social stability and change

May be viewed as a collection of rules or principles that limit and direct human behavior
law

Damages designed to punish; keep them from doing it again
punitive damages

What is the fundamental law of the land?
U.S. Constitution

What establishes the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government?
U.S. Constitution

What branch of government writes the law?
legislative branch

Who creates statutory law?
Legislature

What does statutory law consist of?
federal laws, state laws, and municipal laws

Who creates a statute?
Congress

Who makes regulations?
Agencies

Where did common law originate from?
the English

Who interprets decisions and applies the laws?
Judiciary

Systematic way to change law
common law

Legal principle from cases is called...

, Precedent

"Looking back through precedents" or the use of this precedent is called...
Stare Decisis

If there is a new issues the judge does what?
makes a new law

True or false: common law varies by state
True

What is the first question when we talk about a case?
why is it in the book?

Davis v. Baugh Industrial Contractors, Inc. is an example of how...
common law changes

What was held in the Davis v. Baugh Industrial Contractors, Inc. case?
reversed and remanded. court rejected previous common law rule and accepted a more
modern approach.

What is the process of the judiciary system?
trial court > court of appeals > supreme court

The President can create law through...
executive orders

Executive orders are limited to...
federal agencies

What are the 3 classifications of law?
1) public/private
2) civil/criminal
3) substantive/procedural

What type of law is legal relationships between members of society and the
government?
public law

What type of law is legal relationships among members of society?
private law

What type of law states that the guilty can be fined, imprisoned, or both?
criminal law

"Beyond reasonable doubt" is a legal requirement for which type of law?

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